Women's Hoops Blog

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Sunday, April 23, 2006

Fallout continues over Penn State's decision to allow Rene Portland to stay on as its women's basketball coach.

The chairman of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, Stephen Glassman, said that there have been complaints over 20 years about Portland. "It would have been helpful to all minorities on campus if this issue had been dealt with after the very first complaint."

Penn State student activists want Portland fired. They plan to demonstrate on Wednesday at Old Main.

The Post-Gazette's Ron Cook questions PSU's leadership.
..keeping Paterno is one thing. He's a legend -- the greatest college football coach of all time it says here -- whose only real offense was failing to win enough games from 2000-04. Keeping Portland, who also has been successful during her 26 seasons at Penn State, is something much different, much worse, much more damning... That she is being allowed to stay at a public university, which needs tolerance and diversity to thrive as an academic institution, seems especially abhorrent.
The Patriot-News' David Jones has a different perspective.
I don't just support Rene Portland because she doesn't like those ... well, in the interest of decorum, I'll not say here, but you know what "people" I mean. I do so because she's Penn State Proud and that's good enough for me. Those who've turned on her now in her time of need, well, you all make me sick.